Coronavirus

Horn6721 said:
Bubba was saying that Trump tried to buy a company that produces the Hydrocholorquine.
So far Bubba has not been able to produce a credible site.
Click to expand...
They are a company that was in the lead on making the vaccine. It the drug. I think when the dust settles hydrocholoroquine will have some link to trump.
 
LongestHorn said:
WSJ liberal rag posted on Matt Drudge commie site. Lulz.

A rapid test for the new coronavirus that was touted by the White House as a game-changing development has proved vexing for state officials, who say the federal government has failed to provide enough necessary equipment.

“It’s incredibly frustrating,” said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, whose state got 15 of Abbott Laboratories ’ testing machines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus—and cartridges to conduct only about 100 tests. Mr. Sununu, speaking at a news conference, said most of the machines would sit idle until he could figure out how to get more of the cartridges, one of which is needed to complete each test.

“There was a lot of hype on this nationally,” the Republican said. “To have 13 of these devices and no way to use them—I’m banging my head against the wall.”
Click to expand...

I'm guessing you were bullied a lot as a kid.
 
OUBubba said:
Heard a German scientist on a podcast. She did not answer affirmatively that this had taken place. It was more of a “I can not confirm that an offer was made to purchase our company”. I infer Those to be non-denial denials.
Click to expand...

You sure you weren't watching Hogan's Heroes and listening to Sargent Schultz?
 
LongestHorn said:
Trump’s failure to grasp the politics of coronavirus is, I’d argue, a microcosm of his entire administration. As with COVID-19, Trump had so many potential advantages at the beginning, after his surprise victory. Imagine if he’d started his presidency with a massive infrastructure spending bill, followed by an immigration compromise that would have funded his wall, beefed up enforcement, but also gave security to the Dreamers. Imagine if his tax bill had been geared to help working families, rather than the superrich, or that he promised to change Obamacare by expanding it. He would have had a chance to be a transformative president.

But to do that, he would have had to have been someone other than himself. He would have to have developed a long-term political strategy, thought structurally about the country first, and seen his base as a building block to reach out to others in building a durable coalition. But as so many of us pointed out, he was and is simply incapable of this. He’s a prisoner of his own psyche, there is nothing he can do to tame it, and he will allow no one to overrule it.
- Andrew Sullivan

lulz

Andrew Sullivan: America Is Trapped in Trump’s Blind Spot
Click to expand...


You are a sad strange little man, you have my pity.
 
LongestHorn said:
Given the crisis, we have only one option. We need to listen to the experts, rely on governors, trust in Drs. Fauci and Birx, and do our bit.

But we also have a more urgent patriotic task: to ignore this president until we can eventually rid ourselves of him. This is too grave a crisis to give him the respect he doesn’t deserve.

-Andrew Sullivan all day
Click to expand...

Yea, you do that, trust the "so called" and the government. If I looked up the definition of sheep in the dictionary, will I see your picture?
 
Garmel said:
Exactly. Trump followed whatever his Covid-19 team said to do. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, they were fed ******** by China.
Click to expand...

Honestly, I don't know if he followed his team or not. Here's what I do know. First, the Chinese government fed ******** to everybody with the enabling and endorsement of the WHO, and it adversely affected the responses of everybody in the world. They are the chief villains in this, and efforts to suggest otherwise are self-centered acts of political bad faith.

Second, I know that the Democrats would have handled this slower and worse than Trump did. They made that clear with their public statements at the time.

Third, I know that 14 countries have worse death rates than the US (and most of them are MUCH worse). (Realistically, 16 probably do, because China and Iran are almost surely lying about their numbers.) Almost all of these countries have national healthcare systems that are frequently touted as superior to ours. If we handled this so badly and if their systems are so good, why are we doing so much better than they are?

Fourth, I know that letting states take the lead isn't a bad idea and isn't a cop-out. Those who say it is or that it reflects incompetence are dumbasses who don't understand our federal system. The federal government is one of limited jurisdiction and powers. It can't do what state governments can do in terms healthcare delivery and regulation, restricting commerce, and restricting movement. I've heard people whining that we don't have a national stay-at-home order. It's because that would be un-*******-constitutional and blatantly so and on multiple levels. Trump is a President, not a king.

And by the way, we're better off having things handled at the state level, because they are closer to the problem and therefore understand it better in context and because each state and municipality has different needs. What's needed in New York City is wildly different from what's needed in Buford, Wyoming.

Of course, we could all just be like liberals and decide that the Constitution is a "living document" and that we don't care what it says if it interferes with our policy goal. Ok, fine. We wipe our *** with the Constitution, tell the founding fathers to **** themselves, and enact a Nazi-style federal shutdown. Who the hell is going to enforce this law? Remember from the sanctuary cities debate, we're not allowed to compel local police to enforce or even assist in the enforcement of federal laws. (In fact, some on the Left think it's ok for state officials to affirmatively undermine the enforcement of federal laws.) The feds have to do it themselves. So raise for hand if you're ready to turn the FBI from a relatively small agency of about 14,000 agents into a monstrosity with several hundred thousand officers patrolling neighborhoods throughout the United States - a task they've never done in history and in which they have no expertise? Or maybe we should just leave this sort of things to governors and mayors.
 
Last edited:
Thank you Bubba. As a recipient of the Buford T. Justice Award, I must say that it is less than an extremely mediocre honor to be appointed to the highest position on the Oklahoma intellectual hierarchy. I accept this award with the hope that somehow my administration can achieve the impossible by shifting the Sooner nation upward into the bottom third of the American IQ distribution. As Kennedy said, "we choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard." Sooners, please raise your plastic cup of methadone and let's toast your future!
 
Deez, I can hardly express how great that post was.

Sheeple really need to be taught what Federalism is, and why "Trump is a President, not a king." It is a lesson that will keep many of them from one day dying at the whim of a tyrannical king.
 
Bubba
That is not what you asserted and you know it
You were wrong . Have some dignity for yourself and admit it.
 
Last edited:
LongestHorn said:
Don’t read anything on the Drudge Report tonight boys. Stick to whatever Fox is feeding you.
Click to expand...
Did you read the article? Abbott labs are producing 50,000 test kits per day. They are going to hospitals, universities, and city health centers. The state labs are purposely at the bottom of the list.
 
Austin_Bill said:
I'm guessing you were bullied a lot as a kid.
Click to expand...
Abbott is currently manufacturing 50,000 cartridges daily and has vowed to continue increasing production. As of Friday, it had shipped nearly half a million cartridges to doctors’ offices, universities and laboratories that have placed their own orders, a spokes-woman said, in addition to those purchased by the federal government. The rapid test machines cost $4,500 per device, while each cartridge costs $40.

Detroit, was able to buy and deploy a large number of Abbott’s rapid tests shortly after the company got approval from the FDA on March 27. The quick results helped reshape the city’s response to the virus.

Since the start of the month, Detroit has administered more than 1,000 tests, initially focusing on first responders and bus drivers who had been in quarantine, said John Roach, a spokesman for the mayor. The city has already purchased 4,000 additional tests from Abbott and recently said that rapid tests would be used at nursing homes and homeless shelters.
 
Austin_Bill said:
I'm guessing you were bullied a lot as a kid.
Click to expand...
I can’t find the original post. Did LH take it down after reading the last paragraphs that basically undercut the entire story? By the way, WSJ front pages are sadly going the way of other news businesses where the headline doesn’t match the actual story.
 
LongestHorn said:
Click to expand...


LOL! If these idiots don't understand the value of travel restrictions what makes you think they know what they're talking about and why should anyone take their opinions seriously?

These idiots also don't understand that Trump can't dictate to the governors about school closures, etc.. That's unconstitutional.

This Lipton guy and these "health experts" are demonstrating some low IQ ****.
 
Last edited:
B5C8B8AC-94E0-4479-B73D-F2F83FCBB255.jpeg


Other than the time line, is there a difference? Y axis appears to be daily cases - someone forwarded this to me.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

NEW: Pro Sports Forums

Cowboys, Texans, Rangers, Astros, Mavs, Rockets, etc. Pro Longhorns. The Chiefs and that Swift gal. This is the place.

Pro Sports Forums

Recent Threads

Back
Top